Lainey Bishop
Small towns. Big feelings. Happy endings not optional.
Lainey Bishop writes sweet, small-town romance about people who left, people who stayed, and the things neither of them ever quite managed to say. Closed door. Big heart. The ending is always safe.
Come back to Kettle Cove. The porch light is still on.
A Kettle Cove Novel
The Way Back to Kettle Cove
A Sweet Coastal Maine Romance
Book One
Maeve Corrigan has spent ten years learning how to fix other people’s hotels. Now she has to save the one she left behind.
Her grandmother has been hiding it for two years: the east wing of the Tidewater Inn is settling, and Margaret Corrigan would rather conceal a failing foundation than admit she can’t manage the place alone. So Maeve goes back to Kettle Cove with a plan — repair the foundation, rebuild the inn’s reputation, return to the life she built in Boston.
Easy, she thought.
Then she walks into the east wing and finds Thomas Hartley.
Of course it’s Thomas Hartley.
Her childhood best friend. Her almost-something-more. The one person she never quite managed to leave in the past. Maeve went away; Thomas stayed. Ten years later he is still quietly dependable, still impossible to read, and still showing up whenever she needs him without being asked.
Maeve came home to fix a place she was planning to leave again. The hardest thing to fix turns out to be the part of her that wants to stay.
A warm, sweet, closed-door small-town romance about childhood best friends, second chances, and a coastal Maine town in October.
Coming to Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
About
About Lainey
Lainey Bishop writes about small coastal towns and the people who come back to them.
Her stories are quiet on the surface and busy underneath: second chances, long silences, kitchens at the wrong hour, and towns where everyone knows exactly what happened and is far too polite to bring it up.
She believes a good ending isn’t a surprise. It’s a promise kept.
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